We all want more than we have the capacity to obtain...

Here's what you are longing for...

There is something within us that tells us to go after things. We long for things outside of ourselves. We long for adventure. We long to do things that matter.

We long to feel needed, and we long to feel wanted. We long to be known, and we long to know others.

What is it about us that is constantly chasing something?

Solomon understood it when he said, "He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man's heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end." (Ecclesiastes 3:11 ESV)

We were designed by God to have eternity in our hearts; we were designed to know there was way more out there than there is inside ourselves. We were also designed to seek God in the discovery of how He's made things, and in the discovery of Him who made those things.

So many people are led astray, thinking the things that are made are worthy of our worship over the One who made those things. In the ancient world, that manifested in the way people worshiped many gods and in the way they fashioned gods from the things of the earth, such as wood and stone and precious metal. Really, their hearts were seeking the one true God, but they kept stopping off at lesser things.

The apostle Paul knew this when he spoke to the philosophers in Athens. He said, "For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, 'To the unknown god.' What therefore you worship as unknown, this I proclaim to you." (Acts 17:23 ESV)

Paul recognize that although the people had made gods of everything and had a god for everything, they also recognize that something was missing…more importantly, Someone was missing. The way they express that was by creating alters to the god they knew they had not yet discovered. Paul came and preached Christ and Him crucified and introduce them to the one, true, and living God.

Even today, many of us are longing for the one true and living God, but we are stopping off at so many lesser things. Our hearts long to know Him who has made everything, but we keep getting distracted by the things He has made.

Even you, dear friend, reading this right now, having your heart the desire to know more, to experience more, and to find the contentment and satisfaction that you were designed to know. That only comes by being intimately connected to that God made you to know Him.

HE is what you are truly longing for.